Monday, 6 February 2012

Sepia Saturday 112 : Saturday 11 February 2012

Man With Book Sitting In Chair Circa 1915 George Eastman House Collection Via Flickr Commons

Working my way through the list of suggested themes included with the comments to Sepia Saturday 109 I get to LINDA of the delightful blog THE PAPER COLLECTOR and from her list of possible suggestions I choose one of my very favourite subjects - BOOKS. As a theme, perhaps it is a little more challenging than the likes of dolls and dogs, but remember, you can interpret the theme with all the ingenuity you can muster. Pictures of books, pictures from books, books of pictures .... the possible list is as long as your imagination and knowing my Sepia Saturday contributors as I do, I know that is as long as a ten volume encyclopedia.

I have to say that Sepia Saturday seems to have been going from strength to strength over recent weeks and once again I thank everyone for their support. You may have noticed that in her comments on last weeks' post, KATHY over at OREGON GIFTS OF COMFORT AND JOY suggested it might be a good idea to have a Sepia Saturday Facebook Group. It is indeed a good idea and one KAT MORTENSEN had when we first set up Sepia Saturday a couple of years ago. She kindly set up such a group and it has been lying fallow ever since. It can be found by doing a group search for Sepia Saturday or by (hopefully) following THIS LINK. If you use Facebook why not join the group and we can use it to exchange old images and chat about all things sepia. If you don't use Facebook or if you prefer the larger image formats available on Flickr I have also set up a Flickr Sepia Saturday Group which once again we can use to share our images. Again, you should be able to locate it via a group search or (again, hopefully) by following THIS LINK. Thus the Sepia Saturday brand goes remorselessly onward and next week I hope to announce the launch of a range of branded Sepia Saturday underwear!

But that is another book - and one that is perhaps best left closed. For Sepia Saturday 112 all you need do is to post your post on or around Saturday 11th February 2012, leave a link to the list below and visit as many of your fellow sepia posters as possible.

First off, Kat, my sincere condolences. A friend is family regardless of blood.

Secondly, I went to the Facebook group and it is scheduled for deletion or retirement or something like that. I requested to join, but it says that if it migrates to a new page members will have to be re-added.

Don't know what I'll do for post this weekend, or if I'll be able to. My daughter is having her 5th birthday party on Saturday. How did that happen so fast?!

Last, I am still unable to post using the open ID from Wordpress. Is anyone else having this trouble? It appears to be across blogger.

Boy do I miss this! I have been so busy but I am going to make time for this fantastically creative group. I posted about my grandmother's summer in Yellowstone a while back and I need to get that finished.

And it is funny, I have picked up a few sepia images while out shopping in antique stores and thought of you here.

I'll be back to join in with this wonderful blog's fun and creativity.

Indeed it is a tricky one this week - but it is amazing what you can do with a little creative falsehood.Good to see so many of you have signed up for the Facebook and Flickr groups. Sepia 24/7 here we come.

My condolences to you, Kat. I, too, have suffered the loss of a dear friend this week, a very old dog in my case.

A bright spot in an otherwise difficult week was putting together a post to fit the "books" theme. Alan's comment about "a little creative falsehood" makes me think he must have been looking over my shoulder.

I'm looking forward to exploring the new Facebook and Flickr sites. Congratulations!

I learn so much here and have missed it. I think I did OK for this theme, thanks to my Grandmother keeping a few photograph books of her college years. Lots of fun photos I hope to tie in with future themes.

I do plan on continuing with Marguerite's "Yellowstone Journal" but was hoping to get a scanner so I can get better quality images. Hope to do so by next week.

I participate with hesitation because I can do little more than post some images. I have no time to visit all and leave comments which saddens me. I hope in the future to find a way to allow me a few moments to participate.

Alas, I hope all do not migrate to Facebook. I avoid Facebook at all costs so I hope this little site continues to flourish.

Hello, this is the first time I've been a part of Sepia Saturday and I really enjoyed the shoes assignment. Hope I didn't include too many pictures. I look forward to checking out everyone's shoes photos.

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.